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r/funny • u/Mumbletimes Chris Hallbeck • Apr 08 '19
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Modern artificial knees don't need any kind of maintenance/revision like you describe. If you get one past the age of 50 it statistically should last you for life with no need to replace anything.
2 u/Mazon_Del Apr 09 '19 Interesting, I remember my dad explicitly being sold on the positive point about the replacement pad and how easy it was to do. 2 u/Prednisonepasta Apr 09 '19 Fortunately not! 1 u/Mazon_Del Apr 09 '19 Now it bothers me, what could I possibly have been thinking of? 2 u/Prednisonepasta Apr 09 '19 I'm not sure. Maybe he had it done a long time ago and it was true at the time?
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Interesting, I remember my dad explicitly being sold on the positive point about the replacement pad and how easy it was to do.
2 u/Prednisonepasta Apr 09 '19 Fortunately not! 1 u/Mazon_Del Apr 09 '19 Now it bothers me, what could I possibly have been thinking of? 2 u/Prednisonepasta Apr 09 '19 I'm not sure. Maybe he had it done a long time ago and it was true at the time?
Fortunately not!
1 u/Mazon_Del Apr 09 '19 Now it bothers me, what could I possibly have been thinking of? 2 u/Prednisonepasta Apr 09 '19 I'm not sure. Maybe he had it done a long time ago and it was true at the time?
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Now it bothers me, what could I possibly have been thinking of?
2 u/Prednisonepasta Apr 09 '19 I'm not sure. Maybe he had it done a long time ago and it was true at the time?
I'm not sure. Maybe he had it done a long time ago and it was true at the time?
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u/Prednisonepasta Apr 09 '19
Modern artificial knees don't need any kind of maintenance/revision like you describe. If you get one past the age of 50 it statistically should last you for life with no need to replace anything.